{"id":47180,"date":"2014-02-10T07:39:44","date_gmt":"2014-02-10T05:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/?p=47180"},"modified":"2014-02-10T07:39:44","modified_gmt":"2014-02-10T05:39:44","slug":"over-2-million-hivaids-patients-in-india-47180","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/over-2-million-hivaids-patients-in-india-47180\/","title":{"rendered":"Over 2 million HIV\/AIDS patients in India"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_47181\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-47181\" style=\"width: 377px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-47181\" alt=\"Aids cases in India. \" src=\"http:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Aids-India-Nationalturk-10.jpg\" width=\"377\" height=\"310\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Aids-India-Nationalturk-10.jpg 377w, https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Aids-India-Nationalturk-10-267x220.jpg 267w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 377px) 100vw, 377px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-47181\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Aids cases in India.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h1>According to Indian Health minister, over two million people infected with HIV\/AIDS are living in India.<\/h1>\n<p>New Delhi, Feb 10: Over two million people infected with HIV\/AIDS are living in India.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs per surveillance data, 2.09 million people are estimated to be living with HIV\/AIDS in the India. At least 7,47,175 PLHIV are receiving free first line Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART) and 7,224 PLHIV are receiving free second line Anti-Retroviral Treatment (ART),\u201d Indian Health Minister Ghulam Nabi Azad has said.<\/p>\n<p>He said\u00a0 Technical Resources Group (TRG) has recommended providing third line antiretroviral therapy for HIV\/AIDS patients in 10 centres \u00a0across the country. \u201cThe process for the same has been initiated. Viral load testing is also available across the country in 9 testing laboratories\u201d.<\/p>\n<h2>\u2018Steps taken to reduce risk of transmission of HIV from mother to child\u2019<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cUnder the PPTCT scheme counselling and testing services are provided to all ante-natal population detection of HIV positive pregnant women, provision of free Anti-Retro Viral (ARV) prophylaxis to HIV positive pregnant women and the new born infant so as to reduce the risk of transmission of HIV from Mother to Child,\u201d Azad said.<\/p>\n<p>He said since 2001-02, a single dose of ARV prophylaxis (Nevirapine Tablet to pregnant women at the onset of labour and syrup-Nevirapine syrup to new born infant) was given to pregnant women and new born infant.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince January 2014 all HIV positive pregnant women would be provided triple drugs (TDF- Tenofovir Disoproxil Fumarate, 3TC Lamivudine and Efavirenz- EFV) ARV life long, irrespective of CD4 count or WHO clinical staging.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He said during 2012-13 out of the 7509 pregnant women detected HIV positive, 6948 (93%) were provided with single dose nevirapine prophylaxis.<\/p>\n<p><em>Write your comments and thoughts below<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Asia News\/ NationalTurk India News<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Indian Health minister, over two million people infected with HIV\/AIDS are living in India.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":732,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30,80,63,1,107,118,101,14],"tags":[29226,64624,12016,48451,3022,2546,48452,64622,64623,64625,64626],"class_list":["post-47180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia","category-breaking-news","category-daily","category-general","category-health","category-hot","category-politics","category-world","tag-aids","tag-anti-retroviral-treatment","tag-art","tag-ghulam-nabi-azad","tag-hiv","tag-india","tag-indian-health-minister","tag-patients","tag-surveillance-data","tag-technical-resources-group","tag-trg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/732"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47180\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nationalturk.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}